The Ultimate Flipper Fence?
...ing says, “Completely remodeled and designed with Silver Lake living in mind”. Silver Lake living don’t mean what it used to....
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The Unintended Consequences of Water Conservation
...strictions we put in place. My own two cents is that our elected officials used landscape irrigation as a convenient scapegoat to direct our attention away from powerful agricultural interests. The result has been dead trees, melting synthetic grass and shady contractors installing ugly heat generating gravel landscapes with lawn rebate money. Part of the problem is that, to many political leaders, plants are just a kind of background material lik...
The Best Way to Bake Pizza in a Home Oven
...High temperatures. You just can’t make good pizza in a home oven. Or so I used to think. One evening I invited some friends over for an outdoor pizza party but rain put a wrinkle in those plans. I remembered that Josey Baker had some instructions in his book Josey Baker Bread on how to make pizza in a home oven, so I decided to give it a try. Baker credits this home oven technique to a San Francisco street pizza maverick who goes by the name Pizz...
Strapping Bee Hives
...quakes. Eric says: Strapping your hives with ratchet straps, the good kind used by truckers, will reduce the chaos when a beehive is knocked over. We first started strapping our beehives as part of our bear proof the bee yard project. If the hives are strapped, the hives stand a better chance of surviving a bear in the beeyard. One can say that a ratchet strap won’t keep a bear from tearing open a beehive, but I’ve read where the strapping has hel...
Haint Blue
...ces. Haint blue is not a single shade of blue, but refers rather to a blue used for this purpose. The actual color could run from soft powder blue to true sky blue to bright teal. While the cool, airy white porch with a blue ceiling speaks to elegant Victoriana, I’ll note that the practice probably does originate in the traditions of the Gullah or Geechee people, brought to this country as slaves. They’d mix up lime paint in various shades of blue...